Response to COVID-19 1
DOC COVID-19 Percentages Nationwide State Inmate Population # of Positive Inmates Inmate Deaths # of Positive Employees Percent of Inmates Positive Alabama 26,896 28 3 119 0% Alaska 2 0 11 Arizona 15,882 252 4 (3 more pending) 117 2% Arkansas 15,575 1,336 11 135 9% California 110,859 2,444 15 513 2% Colorado 15,797 626 3 50 4% Connecticut 10,640 1,210 7 380 11% Delaware 4,436 140 8 89 3% Federal Bureau of Prisons 147,847 6,141 84 657 4% Florida 94,000 1,645 19 326 2% Georgia 51,986 495 20 185 1% Hawaii 3,029 0 0 0 0% Idaho 8,000 0 0 5 0% Illinois 36,910 252 13 179 1% Indiana 26,418 697 19 318 3% Iowa 7,635 30 0 18 0% Kansas 9,424 891 4 115 9% Kentucky 20,298 378 2 57 2% Louisiana 15,042 614 15 168 4% Maine 2,175 4 0 1 0% Maryland 19,151 359 8 407 2% Massachusetts 7,742 390 8 165 5% Michigan 37,917 3,953 68 371 10% Minnesota 9,381 286 0 57 3% Mississippi 17,609 34 1 27 0% Data from 6/15/2020 2
DOC COVID-19 Percentages Nationwide (cont.) Missouri 27,000 50 1 37 0% Montana 16,000 0 0 0 0% Nebraska 5,369 12 0 12 0% Nevada 12,929 776 126 580 6% New Hampshire 2,609 1 0 11 0% New Jersey 13,799 2,403 45 781 17% New Mexico 6,424 224 2 11 3% New York 77,227 516 16 1,285 1% North Carolina 31,609 713 5 152 2% North Dakota 1,794 5 0 4 0% Ohio 46,716 4,878 78 738 10% Oklahoma 23,162 2 0 14 0% Oregon 42,062 174 1 49 0% Pennsylvania 45,645 262 9 186 1% Rhode Island 11,082 21 0 17 0% South Carolina 17,500 108 0 90 1% South Dakota 3,679 4 0 5 0% Tennessee 21,473 3,137 4 97 15% Texas 133,600 7,318 49 (34 more pending) 1,097 5% Utah 14 0 4 Vermont 1,392 48 0 20 3% Virginia 28,595 1,313 9 113 5% Washington 17,845 103 0 74 1% West Virginia 7,118 122 0 9 2% Wisconsin 21,788 264 0 64 1% Wyoming 2,410 0 0 1 0% Data from 6/15/2020 3
SCDC COVID-19 REPORTING of POSITIVE RESULTS Inmates Location Staff Staff Cleared Inmate Cleared Allendale 15 12 29 27 Broad River 18 16 Camille Graham 5 3 Evans 11 38 12 Goodman 1 1 Kershaw 1 Kirkland 10 8 41 35 Leath Lee 4 3 Lieber Livesay 2 1 MacDougall Manning 1 1 McCormick 2 2 Palmer Perry 4 Ridgeland Trenton 1 1 Turbeville 3 3 1 0 Tyger River 1 1 Wateree River 2 2 Non-Institutional Staff 10 7 Total 91 61 109 74 Data from 6/17/2020 4
Educating and Protecting SCDC’s Inmates and Staff • Educational material is posted in the offender living areas, on the kiosks, and tablets where available. • Appropriate PPE is available for staff and offenders. SCDC produced masks for all offenders and correctional facility staff to wear. Each employee and prisoner received two masks each – which can be laundered and worn again. Facility staff are also permitted to bring their own PPE, such as masks. Staff are expected to wear their masks during their entire shift and offenders are expected to wear their masks at all times (except while eating, sleeping or showering). • Extra PPE has been secured for outside vendors who are critical to the institution’s daily operations. • Anyone entering facilities are screened prior to admission. This includes answering screening questions and having their temperatures taken. Anyone suspected of having symptoms will not be allowed in the facility. Staff are sent home if they start to develop symptoms while at work. They are encouraged to get tested if their symptoms are consistent with COVID-19. 5
Contact Tracing • SCDC performs contact tracing when a positive test is reported by an employee. A contact tracing investigation is completed to determine what other employees or offenders the COVID-19 positive employee may have encountered as a close contact. If an employee has been in close contact with another employee, depending on the amount of exposure, that employee may be asked to go home and quarantine or be advised to continue to work and self-monitor for symptoms. If the employee is around any other offenders, then that offender is placed on quarantine and are monitored twice a day to ensure that they have not developed symptoms and do not have abnormal vitals. If the employee has worked in a housing unit, the housing unit is placed on quarantine and all inmates housed in that unit are monitored twice a day to ensure that they have not developed symptoms and do not have abnormal vitals. 6
R&E Intakes/Positive Inmates • All new intakes are screened prior to leaving the transferring detention center and, again, before processing into R&E. If they have signs or symptoms they are immediately isolated. If they do not, they are placed in quarantine for 14 days. During this time, they are monitored for the development of symptoms and their vitals are taken twice a day. • Copays for medical visits have been lifted for offenders. This was done to encourage the offender to come forward if they have any symptoms. SCDC staff are instructed to call medical if any offender appears sick or has complaints of symptoms consistent with COVID-19. • If an offender tests positive, SCDC performs contact tracing to determine what other individuals the offender may have been in close contact. The offender’s living unit is placed on quarantine and the individuals within that unit are monitored twice a day to ensure that they have not developed symptoms and do not have abnormal vitals. Any employee who has been in contact with the inmate is notified and told to self-monitor twice daily. • Offenders who test positive will be transferred to one of the designated isolation units. These units are in buildings that are separate from other areas within the correctional facilities. They have limited movement in these units. Only a small number of designated employees work in these units to limit the number of people entering/exiting. 7
Quarantine Dorms • When a dorm is placed on quarantine anyone who leaves their cell as a dorm worker/helper is tested for COVID-19. • The National Guard has been helping in the quarantine units at 3 correctional facilities. • Pre-operative testing is guided by the individual hospital and physician. • Since the beginning, SCDC’s medical staff has been on several conference calls from various organizations in order to stay abreast on best practices for COVID-19. SCDC has a weekly conference call with Prisma Health to discuss currently hospitalized patients and to anticipate inpatient needs. We are in constant communication with DHEC about challenging patients and to share contact tracing information. 8
Behavioral Health Services – Resources for Staff • Internal and external services were provided to staff including: Information on how and when to reach the SCDC Critical Incident Stress Management o Team (CISM). Access to the Supporting Our Staff Hotline (SOS) in partnership with DMH. o Information on how to access the other resources, such as Employee Assistance Program, o the Community Crisis Response and Intervention Hotline (CCRI), and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. • Helpful links to available online resources and articles were provided CDC Tips for Coping with Stress and Anxiety o A letter to my corrections family during the COVID-19 crisis, Caring for ourselves during o trying times can help keep our lives in balance by Maya J. Mason Stress Management Strategies for Corrections Officers, by Dr. Michael Pittaro o How to Cope with Anxiety and Uncertainty by Deborah Zicht, LCSW-R o Living with Uncertainty: From Panic to Peace, by Tenelle O. Jones o • Self-help care tips were provided to give employees basic tools to cope with stress, manage anxiety and adjust to isolation. 9
Behavioral Health Services – Resources for Inmates • Mental Health Staff were distributed the COVID-19 Reentry Checklist provided by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, The National Sheriffs' Association. This included guides pertaining to COVID-19, mental health and substance use disorders. • A resource guide for coping with COVID-19 related stress and fears, developed by the Division of Behavioral Health was distributed to all institutions including self-tips and how to seek assistance. • Mental Health Officers have been utilized to conduct periodic rounds on general population units when feasible to assist any inmates who are seeking advice and guidance on coping with stress. 10
Behavioral Health Services Modifications • All outpatient level services have been provided via telepsych, including counselor and psychiatric sessions • All residential program services were continued on site for the first 30 days with modifications to group size; after 30 days groups were discontinued and only critical services were provided on site to include crisis services, daily counselor presence and routine RHU rounds. All 1:1 routine counseling / psychiatry sessions were moved to telepsych to limit contact where possible. All Mental Health Officers remained on site. • All psychiatric hospital services continued as usual, except for group activities. • All Addiction and Recovery Services were suspended. 11
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